Example sentences of "as [pron] was [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , I believe that in its veiled way , the report is a very proper indictment of the drama scene — as it was perceived by these three sharp young people in 1974–75 . |
| 3 | It was an arguably effective method of achieving both killing and disposal of the body — probably ensuring that the perpetrator remained undetected — to load the victim into an escape pod which was destined to be destroyed as soon as it was tracked by any of the platforms in orbit . |
| 4 | I read in Coldwater Answers about Mr. Belsey , who was having problems protecting the pond from herons , as it was surrounded by crazy paving . |
| 5 | Archer Road or ‘ The Street ’ as it was known by all who lived in it , was a bit like the curate 's egg : bits of it were good and bits of it were bad , very bad . |
| 6 | Junius wrote that while the King ‘ plumes himself upon the security of his title to the crown , [ he ] should remember , that , as it was acquired by one revolution , it may be lost by another ’ ( 1779 : 111–12 ) . |
| 7 | Most animal fights are restrained , or , as it was termed by early ethologists , ‘ ritualized ’ . |
| 8 | TWO policemen armed only with truncheons rescued a 40-year-old man as he was savaged by two pit bull terriers in a west London street yesterday . |
| 9 | One recruit of the period is worth special mention as he was regarded by many as a genius . |
| 10 | A Middle Eastern intelligence analyst , who asked for his name to be withheld as he was employed by another agency , was even more emphatic . |
| 11 | Brown paid the price for his fast start as he was passed by Irish vets champion Billy McKay of Albertville . |
| 12 | Something like resentment was beginning to swell in Cardiff ; a resentment that he was now doing as he was told by these newcomers — these newcomers who seemed to have more answers than he did for whatever in hell was going on here . |